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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Condition or capability that must be met or possessed by a system - product - service result or component to satisfy a contract - standard - specification or other formally imposed document.






2. The acquirer of products - services or results for an organization






3. Any of all process related assets - from any or all of the organizations involved in the project that are or can be used to influence the project's success. these process assets include formal or informal plans - policies - procedures and guidelines.






4. A diagram that describes a decision under consideration and the implications of choosing one or another of the available alternatives. it is used when some future scenarios or outcomes of actions are uncertain. it incorporates probabilities and costs






5. The process of managing procurement relationships - monitoring contract performance - and making changes and corrections as needed






6. Analytical technique used to determine basic underlying reason that causes a variance or defect or risk






7. Type of procurement document used to request price quotations from prospective sellers of common or standard products or services






8. Collecting and distributing performance information - including status reports - progress measurements and forecasts






9. Point in time that work was scheduled to finish on a schedule activity. called planned finish date






10. Response to a negative risk that has occurred - workaround is not planned in advance of the occurrence of the risk event






11. Indications that a risk has occurred or is about to occur. also called risk symptoms or warning signs. should be watched or monitored in the risk monitoring and control process.






12. The formally documented identification of a defect in a project component with a recommendation to either repair the defect or completely replace the component






13. Hierarchal organization where each employee has one clear superior and staff are grouped by areas of specialization and managed by a person with expertise in that area.






14. Improving the competencies - team interaction - and the overall team environment to enhance project performance






15. The calculation of late finish dates and late start dates for uncompleted portions of all schedule activities. determined by working backward through the schedule network logic from the projects end date






16. Budgeted cost of work performed






17. An imperfection or deficiency in a project component where that component does not meet requirements or specifications and needs to be either repaired or replaced






18. A formally constituted group of stakeholders responsible for reviewing - evaluating - approving - delaying or rejecting changes to a project - with all the decisions and recommendations being recorded






19. Determining which risks may affect the project and documenting their characteristics






20. Reserve






21. Point in time that work was scheduled to start on a schedule activity. called planned start date.






22. Slack - Total amount of time that a schedule activity maybe delayed from its early start date without delaying the project finish date or violating a schedule constraint.






23. Identifying all people or organizations impacted by the project and documenting relevant information regarding their interest - involvement and impact on project success






24. An estimating technique that uses the values of parameters - such as scope - cost - budget - and duration or measures of scale such as size - weight - and complexity from a previous similar activity as the basis of estimating the same parameter or me






25. Document describing how project risk management will be structured and performed on the project. contains the list of project risks - the results of risk analysis and risk responses






26. The process of completing each project procurement






27. Quantifiable deviation - departure or divergence away from a known baseline or expected value






28. Estimate of the amount of work that has been completed on an activity or a work breakdown structure component






29. Documents and presentations that provide organized and summarized work performance information - earned value management parameters and calculations - and analyses of project work progress and status






30. The process of confirming human resource availability and obtaining team necessary to complete project assignments






31. Identifying and documenting relationships among project activities






32. An organizational placement strategy where the project team members are physically located close to one another in order to improve communication - working relationships and productivity






33. Total number of work periods required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component.






34. Any of all external environmental factors and internal organizational environmental factors that surround or influence the projects success. these factors are from any or all of the enterprises involved in the project and include organizational cultu






35. Continuously improving and detailing a plan as more detailed and specific information and more accurate estimates become available as the project progresses and thereby producing more accurate and complete plans that result from the successive iterat






36. Document that provides for common and repeated use - rules - guidelines or characteristics for activities or their results






37. Group of related schedule activities aggregated at some summary level and displayed as a single activity (at the summary level)






38. Identifying - documenting - approving or rejecting and controlling changes to the project baselines






39. Calendar of working days or shifts that establishes those dates on which schedule activities are worked and nonworking days that determine those dates on which schedule activities are idle






40. Aggregating the estimated costs of individual activities or work packages to establish an authorized cost baseline






41. Those processes performed to finalize all activities across all project management process groups to formally close the project or phase






42. The degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfills requirements






43. Subdivision of a phase






44. Planning technique used to provide products - services and results that truly reflect customer requirements by translating those customer requirements into the appropriate technical requirements for each phase of project product development






45. Output from performing project management processes and activities. results include outcomes and documents.






46. Determining project stakeholder information needs and defining a communication approach






47. Smaller portion of the overall project created when a project is subdivided by their logical relationship






48. Hierarchically organized depiction of the identified project risks arranged by risk category and subcategory that identifies the various areas and causes of potential risks.






49. Bar chart showing the amount of time that a resource is scheduled to work over a series of time periods.






50. A short unique numeric or text identification assigned to each schedule activity to differentiate that project activity from other project activities. typically unique within any one project schedule network diagram